World leaders meeting at the UN
climate change conference should agree to keep global warming at
1.5 degrees, Italy's minister for the environment said
Wednesday.
"We are asking for there to be an agreement of at least
1.5 degrees," said Gian Luca Galletti, speaking in the Senate at
the conference in Paris. "[This] can become the real target,
indeed I believe it should become the real target."
The objective to keep global warming below 2 degrees,
which has already been agreed upon, "is not sufficient", he
said.
"Paris will be draw a line between old and new economies,"
he said. "The principal objective today is to respect the
environment, which will require careful industrial policies."
The agreement "will no longer be an economic constraint
but a great opportunity, because every country is heading in
that direction"," he said.
"From Paris, there's no going back."
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